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How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives - Tip #162

Vignettes Learning

According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. This is the essence of using Story-based Learning Objectives.

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Letting Go of the Need to Know Everything: Use Context Setting Learning Objectives

Vignettes Learning

Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. The need to refocus learning objectives on the needs of learners becomes apparent.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

Our brains have been wired over the last 2,500 years to learn through stories. It’s a great way to experience a situation without having to actually live it firsthand, and learners tend to retain this information. Visual learning research finds that students learn more of the content when there is less of it on the screen.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

His story was along the lines of the keynote of last year by John Medina at the Learning Solution conference. The brain filters information (to prevent information overload), in principle you forget the most information that you encounter, you need to reactivate the facts in order to really store them in your brain.

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17 Awesome Resources on Micro Learning

Learnnovators

It is made possible with the aid of small, well planned, bite-sized chunks of units or activities (also called learning nuggets) that are short-term, digestible, and easily manageable. Micro learning suits the constraints of the human brain with respect to its attention span.

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17 AWESOME RESOURCES ON MICRO LEARNING

Learnnovators

It is made possible with the aid of small, well planned, bite-sized chunks of units or activities (also called learning nuggets) that are short-term, digestible, and easily manageable. Micro learning suits the constraints of the human brain with respect to its attention span.

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Making Learning Stick; tips for Knowledge Retention

Enterprise Study

If you’re putting care and resources into creating learning for others then the last thing you want is for that learning to be immediately forgotten. Avoid information overload. A simple narrative is a very easy way to communicate key learning objectives in a format that people are much more likely to remember.